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Paperback. Reveals the untold history of the United States Border Patrol from its beginnings in 1924 as a small peripheral outfit to its emergence as a large professional police force. This book focuses on the daily challenges of policing the borderlands and brings to light unexpected partners and forgotten dynamics. Series: American Crossroads. Num Pages: 336 pages, 10 b/w photographs, 1 map, 6 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFN; JKSW1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 462.
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520266414
ISBN
9780520266414
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.77

Paperback. First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJC; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW; HBT; JFSJ1; KNXB2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 138. .
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2019
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781138883420
ISBN
9781138883420
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.37

Paperback. Reveals the dark underside of environmental privilege Series: Nation of Newcomers. Num Pages: 284 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBWC; JFFA; JFFN; KCF; RNP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 157 x 17. Weight in Grams: 460.
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
284
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781479834761
ISBN
9781479834761
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.70

Hardcover. A lavishly illustrated survey of American Art Deco architecture. Num Pages: 320 pages, Over 500 colour photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ACXD3; AMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 280 x 259 x 28. Weight in Grams: 1650.
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Number of pages
320
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393019704
ISBN
9780393019704
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 56.88
€ 52.68

Paperback. Anti-Americanism is a far from homogenous phenomenon, even in the Islamic world, where, the press would sometimes have us believe, there exists a hostility to the US. This book offer an analysis of the underlying causes, nature and development of Anti-Americanism, covering North Africa, the Middle East, Sub-Saharan Africa and South East Asia. Editor(s): Faath, Sigrid. Num Pages: 318 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1QFM; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Publisher
C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Number of pages
318
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9781850657897
ISBN
9781850657897
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 47.11

Hardcover. Weaves together scientific and historical evidence to demonstrate the vast role the New Madrid earthquakes played in the United States in the early nineteenth century, shaping the settlement patterns of early western Cherokees and other Indians, heightening the credibility of Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa for their Indian League in the War of 1812. Num Pages: 480 pages, 26 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBBSM; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 33. Weight in Grams: 771.
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
480
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226053899
ISBN
9780226053899
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 94.82
€ 78.49

Hardcover. This set includes works by a number of major writers on corporate governance in the late 19th century. The books presented here capture that debate in all its variety, and the views of their authors continue to resonate in the early 21st century after the downfall of Enron and WorldCom. Editor(s): Witzel, Morgen. Num Pages: 2400 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJC; KCZ; KN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 229. Weight in Grams: 3901.
Publisher
Thoemmes Continuum
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843710899
ISBN
9781843710899
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 1,119.89
€ 1,008.89

Paperback. The post-'68 psychoanalyst and philosopher visits a newly democratic Brazil in 1982 and meets future President Luis Ignacia Lula da Silva: a guide to the radical thought and optimism at the root of today's Brazil. Translator(s): Clapshow, Karel; Holmes, Brian. Series: Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; JPF; JPQB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 151 x 35. Weight in Grams: 744.
Publisher
MIT Press Ltd United States
Number of pages
496
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9781584350514
ISBN
9781584350514
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 20.92

Paperback. A story of a half-blood girl caught between the worlds of Anglo ranchers and full-blood reservation Indians; between the craven and false-hearted easterner Alfred Densmore and James LaGrinder, a half-blood cowboy and the best rider on the Flathead; and, between book learning and the folk wisdom of her full-blood grandmother. Num Pages: 302 pages, facsims.,1port. BIC Classification: 1KB; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 139 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
334
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1981
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803281103
ISBN
9780803281103
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 20.79

Paperback. Examines the roles of white women in Australia's and the United States' policies of indigenous child-removal and education. Num Pages: 592 pages, 24 photographs, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; 1MBF; 3JH; 3JJ; JFSJ1; JFSL9; JFSP1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 206 x 36. Weight in Grams: 882.
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Number of pages
592
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803235168
ISBN
9780803235168
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 38.16

Cards. Num Pages: 102 pages, 101 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KB; 5AG; YNNR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 152 x 117 x 28. .
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
102
Publication date
2018
Edition
Flc Crds
Condition
New
SKU
V9781493025831
ISBN
9781493025831
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.40

Paperback. .
Publisher
The University of Alabama Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
2nd ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780817352752
ISBN
9780817352752
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 14.42

Hardcover. Based on a wide range of Arab and Western sources, the author analyzes contemporary foreign policy issues and security matters - notably that of the Arabian peninsula and the Red Sea, where Yemen is a significant player. Series: Library of Modern Middle East Studies. Num Pages: 244 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1FBXY; 1KBB; 3JJPK; 3JJPL; 3JJPN; 3JJPR; HBJF1; HBJK; HBLW3; JPQB; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 51. Weight in Grams: 440.
Publisher
I. B. Tauris
Number of pages
244
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Condition
New
SKU
V9781850437727
ISBN
9781850437727
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 153.25
€ 137.06

Paperback. Num Pages: 178 pages. BIC Classification: 1KB; BG; HBJK; HRCC7; HRCX7; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 150 x 10. Weight in Grams: 272.
Publisher
Sheed & Ward
Number of pages
178
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Condition
New
SKU
V9781556128134
ISBN
9781556128134
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.72

Paperback. Charts the development of the teen movie from a marketing category to a genre obsessed with smart answers to its own past. This title discusses the evolution of themes like the Mean Girl and the loss of virginity. It demonstrates how teen films and TV series deal with the tragic and comic undersides of the American dream. Num Pages: 199 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APF; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 346.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
191
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845111847
ISBN
9781845111847
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 26.84

Hardcover. Using the story of cinchona bark, and drawing on extensive archival research, Matthew Crawford shows how indigenous healers, labourers, merchants, colonial officials, and creole elites contested European science and thwarted imperial reform by asserting their authority to speak for the natural world. Num Pages: 336 pages, 7 Illusrations. BIC Classification: 1KLSX; 3JD; 3JF; HBLL; MBX; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822944522
ISBN
9780822944522
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.17

Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages, 10 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFR; JFSG; KCU. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 225 x 150. .
Publisher
Transcript Verlag Germany
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9783837631111
ISBN
9783837631111
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.04
€ 42.31

Paperback. A behind-the-scenes glimpse at Edward S Curtis and his associates' anthropological research during the first decades of the twentieth century as they used words and pictures to document the traditional cultures of Native Americans in the western United States Editor(s): Gidley, Mick. Num Pages: 216 pages, 25 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KB; HBTB; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 10. Weight in Grams: 300.
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
216
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803234680
ISBN
9780803234680
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.20

Hardback. This Reader provides substantial extracts from the core texts in the field of American social and political thought. The aim is to demonstrate the rich intellectual tradition of the United States and to facilitate a better understanding of American society and politics through the reproduction of key texts from a wide variety of thinkers. Editor(s): Hess, Dr. Andreas. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JHBA; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UA) A / AS level; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 244 x 172 x 25. Weight in Grams: 976.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
496
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748615285
ISBN
9780748615285
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 154.08
€ 145.35

Multiple-component retail product. The essential resource for religions of the Caribbean Editor(s): Taylor, Patrick; Case, Frederick Ivor. Num Pages: 1192 pages, 17 color photographs, 33 black and white photographs, 5 line drawings, 1 map, 30. BIC Classification: 1KJ; GBC; HRA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 285 x 224 x 83. Weight in Grams: 3758.
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
640
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252037238
ISBN
9780252037238
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 272.18

Paperback. The attempt to repress a majority of its own population backfired on the Confederate States of America as the disenfranchised demanded to be counted and considered in the great struggle over slavery, emancipation, democracy, and nationhood. This title presents the story of this epic political battle. Num Pages: 456 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 156 x 29. Weight in Grams: 656.
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
456
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674064218
ISBN
9780674064218
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 28.44

Paperback. Describes the ways that prisons shape and infiltrate the lives of women with husbands, fiances, and boyfriends on the inside. This book shows that with social welfare weakened, prisons are the most powerful public institutions available to women struggling to overcome untreated social ills and sustain relationships with marginalized men. Num Pages: 256 pages, 8 halftones, 6 line drawings, 6 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSJ1; JHBK; JKVP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 440.
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226114637
ISBN
9780226114637
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.00
€ 28.58

Hardback. Ever since the 1960s when he was a young priest in Mississippi, Bernard Law has witnessed and participated in many of the struggles and events that have shaped American and Church history. This text presents a portrait of one of the most respected and influential leaders of the Catholic Church. Editor(s): Cessario, Romanus. Series: Religion, Politics & Society in the New Millennium. Num Pages: 368 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BG; HBJK; HBLW3; HRCC7; HRCX6. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 617.
Publisher
Lexington Books United States
Number of pages
368
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
SKU
V9780739103401
ISBN
9780739103401
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 178.16

Paperback. The first book to detail the history and the vast social implications of the Viagra phenomenon Num Pages: 288 pages, 10 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JHBK5; KNDP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 151 x 16. Weight in Grams: 420.
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814752111
ISBN
9780814752111
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.70

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